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Amanda Brookfield
Goodreads Author
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
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Influences
George Eliot. EMForster. Elizabeth Strout
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November 2013
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The Split
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Good Girls
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2019
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The Other Woman
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Relative Love
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2004
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14 editions
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Sisters and Husbands
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2002
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Life Begins
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2008
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13 editions
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A Family Man
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2001
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19 editions
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Before I Knew You: A heartbreaking book club pick from Amanda Brookfield
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2011
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12 editions
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Simple Rules Of Love
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2006
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Alice Alone
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A Shattered Soul
I didn’t want to read Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize winner, ‘Prophet Song’, because an eminent critic called it ‘soul-shattering’ and I don’t need my soul shattered, thank you very much. But then someone gave me a copy for Christmas, and after gathering dust in my TBR pile I thought, okay then, let’s give it a go. Because a book can always be closed, right? If you don’t like how it is written, or if i
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“Writing, by its nature, can be self-exposing, because at heart we have only our own experiences as our starting points, though in the best novels those experiences are transformed into new and separate truths by the creative power of the imagination.”
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“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
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“I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.”
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Hi Amanda, thanks for the add. I'm laughing at your Hemingway quote!
Lucinda wrote: "Amanda,I am delighted to have won a copy of your novel "The Love Child" which i am really looking forward to reading and reviewing! Thanks so much for acepting my friendship request. x"
Lucinda wrote: "Amanda,
I am delighted to have won a copy of your novel "The Love Child" which i am really looking forward to reading and reviewing! Thanks so much for acepting my friendship request. x"
Hi Lucinda,
I have only just seen your note - thank you! I am thrilled that you won a copy of The Love Child and hope very much that you enjoy reading it.
Best wishes,
Amanda
Amanda,I am delighted to have won a copy of your novel "The Love Child" which i am really looking forward to reading and reviewing! Thanks so much for acepting my friendship request. x
